AUGUST 28TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 7.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties east of Clacton pier, and that the Clacton life-boat was unable to launch, owing to the lowness of the tide. He asked that the Walton and Frinton boat should put out.

A strong southerly breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched at 7.45 and found the auxiliary yacht Zair, of Maldon, with a crew of three, exhausted and distressed by the rough sea. They asked the coxswain to tow them to a sheltered anchorage and the life-boat took them to Walton river, anchored the yacht there, and arrived back at her station at 5.40 that evening. - Property salvage case.